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May 1, 2024 | 
freeread.causeaction.com | Kevin Ryan
We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE. Jimmy Ringo is the fastest gun in the West, a reality that causes him great annoyance and emotional pain. When news spreads that he’s in Cayenne, the school teacher declares a holiday to let the girls go admire him — the boys didn’t even show up for class. There are other reasons the teacher let them loose.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Kevin Ryan
EuropeRussiaUkraineVladimir PutinWar In his State of the Union speech last month, President Joe Biden told America that, while he strongly supports Ukraine against Russia’s aggression, he won’t have US troops deployed in Ukraine.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
freeread.causeaction.com | Kevin Ryan
We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE. The classic Hollywood western comes from a simpler time when the wide-open spaces of the media had yet to be settled. You had your local cinema, the radio, and whatever TV stations you could catch with your rabbit ears. Imagine the inconvenience and lack of options in such a barren landscape. Then again, imagine the freedom.
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
kevinunscrambles.com | Kevin Ryan
"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen", which was an insight once supposedly offered by the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin. He was probably onto something as historical developments have not always proved to be linear or predictable, they have not always turned out in the ways that have been expected. That seems to be the case again more recently in international security matters, particularly with regard to peace in Europe.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
kevinunscrambles.com | Kevin Ryan
In recent years, if you have been following political trends like me you may also have started to develop a growing sense that our politics, long dominated by the values, methods, and priorities of Baby Boomers, and then the emergence of a growing Generation X political class, has now found itself at a critical crossroad mostly marked by heightened polarization and tribalism.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Robert Wright |Lauren Kahn |Kevin Ryan
Report Card*Change in control of Ukrainian territorySince Feb. 24, 2022: Russia: +25,000 square miles. 11% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut combined. Ukraine: 0. Ukraine has not taken any territory controlled by Russia before the 2022 invasion. Since Aug. 29, 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive: Ukraine +6,760 square miles. 3% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Russia: +420. Ukraine: +7,180.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Robert Wright |Lauren Kahn |Kevin Ryan
• None Ukraine's military command claimed, as of June 15, to have retaken approximately 40 square miles of territory in the course of its even as its soldiers encountered what U.S. military officials in the course of its counteroffensive even as its soldiers encountered what U.S. military officials describe d as fierce resistance by Russian troops.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Robert Wright |Lauren Kahn |Kevin Ryan
The Republican Party primaries are still more than seven months away, but the Russian-Ukrainian war has already emerged as an issue that none of the GOP presidential hopefuls can afford to ignore.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Robert Wright |Lauren Kahn |Kevin Ryan
4 Ideas to ExploreIt is too early to assess the progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive as neither Ukraine nor Russia yet committed their main forces to the fighting, which has intensified in the past week as Ukrainian forces probed Russian defenses along multiple axes in the south and east. This follows from The Economist’s interview with a source in Ukraine’s general staff, who sees commanders on both sides engaged in a “chess game” to draw out each other’s reserves.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
unherd.com | Kevin Ryan
However you try to spin it, the drone strikes that struck Moscow’s wealthiest neighbourhoods on Tuesday night represented a grim turning point in Putin’s flagging campaign against Ukraine. The surprise attacks — which killed eight people, and for which Kyiv has denied all responsibility — were the first against Russian civilians since the war began. They were also the most significant incursion into Russian territory since the Second World War.
